It's performance evaluation season at work. On Thursday, I delivered three evaluations. I actually enjoy delivering performance evaluations and - even more - thinking about goals for the next year. At the end of each conversation, I asked the team member, How was that? It's the mark of a successful manager when the reply is, …
Or, rather, how not to ask for help. Yesterday, my husband received an impassioned plea for help from his sister, who is caregiving for their elderly parents. The 2011 AARP policy document, Valuing the Invaluable, reported that women who care for older family members, spend an average of 20 hours per week doing caregiving responsibilities. …
There you are, minding your own business, and all of a sudden - blammo - it hits you: performance evaluation season. Ugh. No one likes performance evaluation season. First, it often hits at the same time that the fiscal year starts; so, just as your budget gets approved and you are plunged into the fray …
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When you have too much to do, do you share the work? Many people are suffering right now because of the overwhelming amount of work that they need to do, at work – which has been complicated and made more intensive by WFH – and at home, where the woman’s work that was never done …
Have you ever thought about the Myers-Briggs of your organization? I worked with a company once that I thought was INFP. In M-B speak, if you say someone is INFP, that means that they tend to take their energy from within not from outside sources, that they rely on their own intuition more than data …
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